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How to Check for Corruption in Your Database

You could do a smoke test to see if you've definitely got some corruption For example in some of your indexes using am check and you can also use As am check for heap. The other thing I wanted to mention is that some backup tools have the option to check for corruption But backup time which is quite nice if you can't yeah, but is it checking corruption and database or in backups? Corruption can happen in many places. Yeah, this is the main rule of corruption that can happen everywhere I think it checks it at the database level.

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